Civil rights hero John Lewis receives historic surprise in Nashville

John Lewis told stories of history.

He talked of arrests and sit-ins and civil rights marches and beatings and death.

And then a piece of his history — long since filed away in a windowless room in the Metro Nashville Police Department — was brought out and put in front of him.

And, after nearly an hour of powerful discourse, Lewis was left speechless.

In front of him were mugshots of a younger Lewis. There he was, just a day before his 21st birthday, wearing his iconic tan trenchcoat, eyebrows raised and lips slightly parted in bemusement. And another, one year later, wearing a suit and tie with furrowed brow and tight lips.

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Cross-posted in the Tennessee Group.